Vatican 2 calls on all Christians to read the Bible each day,   'to have a burning love'   for the Word of God

This reading plan follows the Sunday liturgy:    reading + psalm + reading + gospel            From www.simplebible.info 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today. 
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, courage and peace for my daily life 

God said to a man in the land of Haran named Abraham,
"Leave your own country and go to a new land I will give you.
I will make you into a great nation."

So Abraham and his family  left the land of Haran
and moved to the land of Canaan.

God said to Abraham,
"I will make your descendants as many
as the number of dust particles on the ground
....an uncountable number."

Even though Abraham and his wife Sarah 
were old and had no children,
Abraham believed God's promise to give them many descendants.

Dear God, please help me to trust you like Abraham

I am exhausted with my groaning.
Every night  my pillow is covered  with tears.

Lord, please hear my prayer.

Dear Lord, please help people  who are in distress of mind or body

Peter stood up with the Eleven and said to the crowd:
These people are not drunk. It's only 9am....too early to drink.
What is happening is what God said through the prophet Joel:

'I, the Lord, will pour out my spirit on all peoples. They will prophesy and see visions. I will pour out my spirit on everyone'

Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on all peoples, all nations

Jesus called four fishermen to become "fishers of men":
Peter and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John.
They left their boats and went with Jesus.

Jesus went all round the area of Galilee,
preaching in local prayer halls
and healing all kinds of sick people

News spread about the sick being healed,
and soon even  people from distant places came to Jesus
to be healed

Jesus, please heal the people I know who are sick: (...names...)